Where to See the 'Fearless Girl' Statue Around the World

For several decades, the biggest photo op in New York City's Financial District was the iconic Charging Bull statue (installed in 1989). But in March 2017, the bronze sculpture was upstaged by a new 4-foot-tall heroine: a young girl with her hands on her hips, ponytail blowing in the wind, defiantly staring down the bull. Dubbed "Fearless Girl," the statue became an instant sensation—especially given the fact that she was installed specifically for International Women's Day (and need we remind you of the political climate in the early months of 2017?). She remained in her Bowling Green location until December 2018, when she was moved to her new position facing the New York Stock Exchange, but that image of a young girl staring down a charging bull is forever burned into our memories.

Fearless Girl also made quite the impression on a global scale, apparently, as replicas have been popping up all over the world—just in time for this year's International Women's Day on March 8. And even if you can't hop across the Atlantic in the next few days, there's a good chance these statues will remain for at least another few months. Here's where you can find Fearless Girls around the world, from England to Australia.

New York City

The first Fearless Girl statue—created by artist Kristen Visbal and funded by Boston's State Street Global Advisors (SSGA)—was originally placed on Wall Street to raise awareness about the importance of gender diversity in corporate leadership. (Since the statue's installment, over 400 of America's biggest companies have added a female director to their previously all-male boards, according to SSBA.) The statue was originally supposed to remain for just seven days, but the surprise surge of attention helped it stay put for over a year. The OG Fearless Girl relocated to stare down the New York Stock Exchange at the end of 2018, where she will remain for the foreseeable future.

London

St. Paul's Cathedral and, more notably, the London Stock Exchange building, continuing the trend of placing the statue by major financial landmarks. This Fearless Girl is expected to remain in England's capital city for the next three months, reports CNBC, although SSGA hopes her tenure might get extended.

Melbourne

Artist Kristen Visbal has made several of her own limited-edition replicas of the sculpture, one of which was purchased by Australian law firm Maurice Blackburn. In late Feburary 2019, Australia's own Fearless Girl was installed in Melbourne's

Federation Square, one of our favorite places to visit in the city. Visbal's replicas are not exactly sitting well with SSGA, who funded the original project and is now filing a lawsuit against the artist, according to Artnet. Melbourne's statue is currently slated to stand for the next three years, but the outcome of the trademark infringement case could potentially cut that timeframe way down.

Oslo

One of Visbal's other replicas was sold to real-estate investor Christian Ringnes, owner of Oslo's

Grand Hotel Oslo. The statue was placed on the sidewalk in front of the hotel in early 2018, and let's just say you might want to visit sooner rather than later: This replica is also cited in SSGA's copyright lawsuit, so Lady Justice might get her hands on Fearless Girl before you can snap that much-desired selfie.

South Africa

In November 2018, South Africa's Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) commissioned its own unique Fearless Girl, created by Cape Town-based artist Marieke Prinsloo-Rowe. While the statue does draw obvious inspiration from Visbal's original creation, the RMB Fearless Girl depicts a proud African girl standing beside a concrete lion outside of the bank's Sandton building in Johannesburg, in a suburb about 20 minutes from the Rosehurst neighborhood. The statue is expected to remain in this location for at least the next year.